The Odyssey-奥德赛

作者：Homer

书名：The Odyssey《奥德赛》

中文简介：《奥德赛》主要讲述了希腊英雄奥德修斯（或译奥德赛斯，罗马神话中称为“尤利西斯”）在特洛伊陷落后返乡。十年特洛依战争结束后，奥德修斯又漂泊了十年，才回到了故乡伊萨卡。人们认为他已经死去，而他的妻子珀涅罗珀和儿子忒勒玛科斯必须面对一群放肆的求婚者，这些人相互竞争，以求与珀涅罗珀成婚。

英文简介：If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends  retold here.